Cortland Evening Standard, Monday, April 2, 1900.
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY.
Last Week of State Legislature—Small Forecast.
ALBANY, April. 2.—In view of the fact that this is the last week of the legislature, but little remains to forecast.
The supply and supplemental supply bills remain to be passed this week, a conference committee having been asked for by Leader Alids of the assembly on the former bill. The appropriation of $600,000 for the forest preserve has been cut down to $250,000.
The Davis-Hill bill for the establishment of a state hospital in the Adirondacks for the care and treatment of persons afflicted with pulmonary tuberculosis will, it is understood, be passed, the lump sum asked for being available during the next four years.
On either Thursday or Wednesday, the special Syracuse investigating committee will submit to the assembly a temporary report and will ask for permission to continue its work at Syracuse during the year and submit a final report at the session of 1901. There is but slight chance of Sergeant-at-Arms Johnson arresting either Snyder or Hammerie, the recalcitrant witnesses, as they will probably remain in hiding until the legislature has adjourned.
Spirited debate is expected in the assembly tonight on the state board of charities bills aimed at the so-called Gerry society of New York city which will permit the state board to visit and inspect the institution and compel the society to submit annual reports.
COCKING MAIN RAIDED.
Gang and Supplies Captured in a New Jersey Town.
NEW YORK, April 2. — Officers of the Hudson county Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raided a cocking main at Guttenberg,. N. J., yesterday. They arrested 58 men, every one that had remained in the building, secured 38 live birds and a number of dead ones, as well as some money and a supply of gaffs.
The men were taken before a justice of the peace and their fines and costs amounted to $722.
The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals officials, however, failed to make the tremendous haul that they had counted on. The most important series of matches between birds owned by Orange and Paterson, N. J., on the one side and Long Island City on the other took place early in the previous evening and several hundred men witnessed the mains. The betting was free and heavy and thousands of dollars changed hands, the Long Island men carrying off the stakes.
About midnight all but 58 of the spectators left the building, these remaining to see further sport. The officers of the society, under the impression that the main would not begin until that hour, then surrounded the building and captured everybody that was within. A number of the men tried to escape, but failed.
The mains were held in the old club house at the Guttenberg race track, and the big assembly room was fitted out with a pit and all the paraphernalia connected with cock-fighting.
PAGE TWO—EDITORIALS.
The Boston board of education maintains at its principal schoolhouses small restaurants, where are sold lunches at low prices to the pupils whose homes are too remote to allow them to go after their midday meals. The board has now decided to drop from the list of edibles sold chocolate creams and pies on the ground that they are unwholesome and deleterious. It is all right enough to "cut out" chocolate creams, but when it comes to putting pie under the ban the action is distinctly un-American and unpatriotic and a flagrant infringement of the inalienable rights of the embryo American citizens of Boston and will, as it should, encounter a vigorous protest from these juvenile patriots. Nor will it be the first time that Boston boys have protested against infringements upon their rights. Those of us who are fortunate enough to have had the good old Franklin Fourth Reader as a textbook recall the manly, patriotic and effective protest made by the boys of Boston to General Gage when the British soldiers wantonly destroyed their snow forts on the Common. Let the school board of Boston and the school boards of other communities who shall follow its example beware how they trifle with the American boy and his American pie.
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SECURED THE BOND
Stolen Sixteen Years Ago from Kingsbury & Daniel's Safe.
On the night of Oct. 24, 1884, the safe of Kingsbury & Daniels in Homer, N. Y., was blown open and valuable contents, including money, bonds and papers were stolen. Among them was a $500 registered bond of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois R. R. due in 1907, belonging to Mrs. Ellen F. Daniels. There was no trace of the burglars and no trace of the stolen property for a long-time. A majority of registered bonds have no coupons and the interest is paid only to the parties in whose name the bonds are registered, but that was not the case with this bond. It had a full set of coupons, and while the bond itself was registered the coupons were not registered, and were as good as gold wherever presented.
Mrs. Daniels resorted to various means to get track of her property, but nothing succeeded till two years ago she put the matter in the hands of Mr. C. F. Walrad, president of the Cortland Savings bank. Mr. Walrad at once set out to trace the bond. He began by stopping payment on the coupons. The railroad company had two agencies, one in New York and the other in Boston where the coupons were turned in from whatever source they might come and were paid. It appeared that not for a number of years after the robbery had a single coupon been presented, but when finally the robbery was old and perhaps thought to be forgotten a number of them were presented in a bunch. When the railroad company was convinced that the bond had been stolen they said they would stop payment on the coupons if Mr. Walrad would furnish an indemnity bond to protect them from harm in case of any mistake. The bond was furnished and both the New York and Boston agencies were notified not to cash those coupons, but to get track of the holder of the bond if any coupons were presented.
Then there was another long wait. Finally some coupons were presented and payment was refused. The bond was located in the possession of a New York banking house. Correspondence with this house followed, and it appeared that this bank had bought the bond of another bank, and that that one had got it of another. The man who had actually been the purchaser for this last mentioned bank had recently died so that it could not be positively learned where he did get it, but correspondence showed that this bond had been through the stock exchanges of both New York and Boston since the robbery.
When this last bank, in whose possession the bond was found, learned of the history of the bond and was given proof of its identity it at once consented to return it to its rightful owner, and last week it was sent up to Mr. Walrad.
It was found that the ink registration on the bond had all been removed by chemicals, and so nicely was it done that there was scarcely a trace of the effect of the chemicals visible on the paper. Mr. Walrad has sent the bond back to the railroad company and the registration has been put upon it again.
It is now ready to be returned to Mrs. Daniels. When that lady was informed that her bond had been found and returned she was of course highly delighted. She has lost the interest upon it for fourteen years, but no coupons have been paid since Jan. 1, 1898, and she has two years' back interest and the original bond back again.
Mr. Walrad is well pleased with the result of his work and well he might be, for it was a long and tedious task to trace this bond, and it was all done by correspondence.
FIRE AT ITHACA.
East Hill House Burned—Students Away—No One Hurt.
ITHACA, April 2.—East Hill House, the largest student rooming house in Ithaca, burned early to-day. Most of the students were out of town for the spring vacation and only seven were in the house at the time. No one was hurt. Mrs. Stillwell, who conducted the boarding house, barely escaped in her night clothes. It is supposed that the fire caught from a defective furnace. Owing to the inadequate apparatus which the city provides for fires on East Hill, no stream was put on until the house was nearly burned to the ground. Loss $10,000; covered by insurance.
Troops Returning Home.
MANILA, April 2.—The United States transport Sherman sailed for San Francisco with a battalion of the Fourteenth infantry, Captains Richard T. Yeatman, Armand I. Lasseigne and William S. Biddle, Lieutenants Robert, Field and Oliver, 175 military prisoners and 25 insane. This is the first organization of regular troops to be returned to the United States from Manila. The Fourteenth Infantry has had nearly two years' service in the Philippines.
Liquor Tax Certificates.
At 3:30 o'clock this afternoon some fourteen or fifteen liquor tax certificates for different parties in the city of Cortland had been paid for and issued by County Treasurer Foster at Homer and others were still making application for them. The list will be published to-morrow.
Maple Sugar Social.
The Farther Lights society of the First Baptist church will hold a maple sugar social on Friday evening, April 6, from 8 to 10 o'clock, in the church parlors. Warm sugar will be served for the small sum of 10 cents. Let every one come and have a good time.
Desirable House to Rent.
House and lot, No. 11 James-st. Nine rooms. Hot water system of heating. Large garden. Good barn, if desired. Village and cistern water. A very pleasant and desirable residence. Rent reasonable. Inquire at the STANDARD office. [Paid ad.]
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY
Of the Y. M. C. A.—List of Officers and Committees for the Year.
The following officers have been elected and committees appointed for the Women's Auxiliary of the Y. M. C. A. for this year:
President—Mrs. F. W. Higgins.
First Vice-President—Mrs. C. F. Brown.
Second Vice-President—Mrs. F. D. Reese.
Secretary and Treasurer—Mrs. C. C. Darby.
Membership Committee—Mrs. F. M. Ingersoll, Mrs. T. H. Wickwire, Mrs. A. W. Edgcomb, Mrs. F. H. Cobb, Mrs. F. W. Collins, Mrs. Aaron Sager, Mrs. M. H. McGraw, Mrs. W. J. Perkins, Mrs. J. D. Sherwood, Mrs. C. T. Peck, Miss Mary Oday.
Social Committee—Mrs. S. W. Sherwood, Mrs. W. H. Stockwell, Mrs. H. M. Lane, Mrs. A. B. Nelson, Mrs. A. F. Stilson, Mrs. C. H. V. Elliott, Mrs. E. C. Palmer, Mrs. Geo. P. Hollenbeck, Mrs. Ella Butler, Miss May Parker.
Entertainment Committee—Mrs. F. J. Doubleday, Mrs. C. F. Brown, Mrs. E. E. Ellis, Miss Effie Allen, Miss Mary Goodrich, Mrs. N. H. Gillette, Mrs. W. R. Hill, Mrs. J. W. Reese, Mrs. A. J. Murray, Mrs. Harris L. Burgess.
Rooms Committee—Mrs. A. M. Ettling, Mrs. Celia Hinman, Mrs. B. L. Webb, Mrs. G. A. Chambers, Mrs. Wm. Greenman, Mrs. C. H. Price.
Music Committee—Miss Martha McGraw, Miss Sarah H. Hubbard, Miss Mina W. Bishop, Miss Mabel Graves, Mrs. George H. Smith, Mrs. W. R. Cole.
Will Sing "Martha."
One of the important features of a first-class opera company, that is singing standard opera in English, is the prima donna. In the Andrews Opera Co. which appears at the Opera House next Thursday in "Martha," Miss Myrta French occupies this important position. She is a pupil of the celebrated Marchesi, made her debut in Italy in the opera of "Romeo and Juliet," was alternate prima donna in the Heinrich's Opera Co., was prima donna of the International Opera Co. in its balmy days; was for two seasons soloist with Sousa's band, and for the past two seasons has been the prima donna of this company, where she is daily adding jewels to the crown that already adorns her head. Her voice is a pure lyric soprano, but she possesses more than the ordinary power and flexibility, has a very charming stage manner, and withal a comely face and figure. Surrounded with a cast, chorus and orchestra such as is carried by this admirable company, patrons of the theatre are assured of an entertainment such as is seldom given outside of the larger cities of the East.
BREVITIES.
—A regular meeting of Grover Post, No. 98, will be held to-night at 7:30 o'clock.
—The regular meeting of Grover Relief corps, No. 96, will occur to-morrow, Tuesday, April 3, at 2:30 o'clock sharp.
—The meeting of the board of directors of the Young Men's Christian association which would regularly occur this evening has been postponed until Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock.
—A large picture of John Truck, nicely framed, is the latest addition to the decoration of the walls of Sheriff Brainard's office at the courthouse, and is a souvenir of the famous murder trial.
—New display advertisements to-day are—Burgess, Our spring top coats, page 7; Warren, Tanner & Co., Dress goods, page 7; J, T. Davern, Millinery opening, page 6; C. P. Brown, Paints, etc., page 8.
—Rev. Robert Clements, the new pastor of the Presbyterian church, has engaged the north suite of rooms at the house of Mr. Geo. P. Hollenbeck, 10 Church-st., and will probably be settled there next week.
—A regular meeting of the W. C. T. U. will be held Tuesday, April 3, at 2:45 o'clock. Consecration service will be led by Mrs. R. J. Lucas. A business meeting will follow and the quarterly reports of superintendent of departments will be given.
—Mrs. Albert F. Gladding, wife of Judge Gladding of Norwich, died Saturday at her home in that village after a week's illness from tonsillitis which developed into pneumonia. She was formerly Mrs. Grace Randall of Cortland and will be remembered by many friends here.
—Mr. Delos Bauder, who went to Chicago Saturday for the remains of his brother Mr. Delevan L. Bauder, who was killed by a passenger train in that city Friday night, will arrive in Cortland on the 11:25 train to-night. The funeral will be held at the residence of Mr. Bauder, 32 Lincoln-ave., Tuesday afternoon at 2 P. M.
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